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Congress Releases First list Of Candidates For Rajasthan Polls

Congress, today, has released it’s first list of candidates for Rajasthan Assembly elections. Senior Congress leader K. C. Venugopal released the list in the party headquarters at the capital today. The list consists of 33 candidates. Prominent figures among those 33 candidates include Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, assembly Speaker CP Joshi and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot.

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Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot would be contesting from his traditional seat of Sradarpura, Joshi from his home constituency of Nathdwara while Pilot has been given his home constituency Tonk ticket.

Rajasthan Congress president and former minister Govind Singh Dotasra has been fielded as party’s nominee from Lachhmangarh Assembly constituency. Other candidates to make it to the list includes Manoj Meghwal, Rita Choudhary, Lalit Kumar Yadav, Ramlal Meena and Ashok Chandna.

After the list was released Dotasra expressed confidence that Congress will rewrite the history books of winning the state for the record second successive terms. He took to his twitter handle to express this.

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Elections in the desert state always throws a direct contest between Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Congress is confident of retaining Rajasthan while BJP is confident of dethroning Congress.

Elections will take place on November 25 with the counting scheduled for December 3.

Debajit Kar

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